The Living Kural
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Kural 291

Kural 291 · Veracity

வாய்மை எனப்படுவது யாதெனின் யாதொன்றும் தீமை இலாத சொலல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

You ask, in lips of men what 'truth' may be; 'Tis speech from every taint of evil free.

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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